Summary: Trapped in a Polish ghetto with thousands of other Jews facing starvation or deportation to the death camps, Jacob is detained one evening at the local Gestapo headquarters. Eavesdropping, he overhears a radio report about a nearby Russian victory. At first he is silent, but circumstances compel him to pass on the good news of hope. A simple, somewhat dour man, the stubble-bearded Jacob...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Icestorm International 1999
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN JACSummary: In a north German village prior to the outbreak of World War I, strange events, accidents, and deaths are occurring. The village people are beside themselves with worry and can't figure out what to do. After the school teacher starts to unravel the mystery, he discovers that the children of the town may be guilty of the crimes and have formed a secret society that the local pastor's daughter...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WHIKertell, Lynn Maslen
Summary: A companion set to the bestselling Bob Books Beginning Readers set, featuring the classic Bob Books characters and some new ones, too!
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2021
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2 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN KERKertell, Lynn Maslen
Summary: "In Bob Books First stories you will find twelve easy-to-read and humorous books. Perfect for emerging readers, this set including kid-approved stories that progress gently through graded reading levels A, B, and C. With one-syllable words and short vowels, Bob Books First stories is a fun confidence builder, especially for kids in Kindergarten"--Publisher's description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic, Inc. 2015
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Pre-Reader (Orange), Call number: JBR ORANGE KERKarsten, Guilherme
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: Deep in the jungle, animals are on the run! One by one, as fast as they can, they search for a place to disappear. Some go low, some go high, and some strike a camouflage pose. Will they be safely hidden before time runs out? And just who are they running from? A jungle mystery that will thrill kids on their first read and continue to entice giggles for many reads to come.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Owlkids Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KARStroud, Carsten
Summary: "Somewhere in the American South, there is a town where something is very, very wrong. A place where malicious men may die, but malice...never. When Carsten Stroud's previous novel, Niceville, was published, Elmore Leonard wrote: "I hope Mr. Stroud, having had so much fun writing Niceville, listening to his people give him terrific dialogue, is writing a sequel or another one like it." We give...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STREaston, Tom
Summary: After a brush with the law, Ben, a dyed-in-the-wool worrier, must take up a new hobby and chooses knitting, an activity at which he excels but must try to keep secret from his friends, enemies, and sports-obsessed father.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel & Friends 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC EASKaysen, Susanna
Summary: This novel-from-life is an exploration of memory and nostalgia set in the 1950s among the academics and artists of Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media, Inc. 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KAYUlrich, Philip
Summary: For centuries the bears of Haven have lived quiet lives, high in the mountains at the edge of the great Precipice. That all changes for a young cub named Growly when he receives a mysterious message. With just his backpack and glider, Growly sets out on a desperate journey to find his grandfather's long lost friend ... and to find a way back home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Here We Go Productions 2013
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Summary: Growly's adventure has taken him far from home in search of C.J., his grandfather's long-lost friend who disappeared over The Precipice. Now, the desperate quest continues as Growly, Chippy, and Tully find themselves facing a journey across the Ocean. In a makeshift sailboat, Growly and his friends embark on their greatest adventure yet. It is a journey that will take them to far-off lands and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Here We Go Productions 2013
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Summary: Successful environmental lawyer Abby Williams is forced to confront her small-town past while investigating a high-profile corruption case back home. Abby Williams left Barrens, Indiana and is working as an environmental lawyer in Chicago. When a new case takes her back home, the successful life Abby painstakingly created begins to crack. Tasked with investigating Optimal Plastics, the town's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RITLeroux, Gaston
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dedalus 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LERStroud, Carsten
Summary: "A police pursuit kicks Sergeant Jack Redding of the Florida Highway Patrol and his trainee, Julie Karras, into a shoot-out that ends with one girl dead and another in cuffs, and the driver of the SUV fleeing into the Intracoastal Waterway. Redding stays on the hunt, driven by the trace memory that he knows that running woman--and he does, because his grandfather, a cop in Jacksonville, was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STRStroud, Carsten.
Summary: Something is wrong in Niceville . . . A boy literally disappears from Main Street. A security camera captures the moment of his instant, inexplicable vanishing. An audacious bank robbery goes seriously wrong: four cops are gunned down; a TV news helicopter is shot and spins crazily out of the sky, triggering a disastrous cascade of events that ricochet across twenty different lives over the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012
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Summary: Joining a scientific team originally scheduled to travel to one of Jupiter's moons, tech genius Robert Eisenbraun is put into hibernation against his will and awakens on a hostile Earth where he must defeat a technological adversary of his own making.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALTMichaels, Kasey.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M MICKagen, Lesley.
Summary: During a sweltering 1960 Milwaukee heat wave, Sally O'Malley struggles with the trauma of her father's sudden death and her sister Troo's possible role in a string of burglaries, an escape from a reform school, and an orphan's disappearance.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KAGEvans, Chris
Summary: Mike Weiss, a young Houston lawyer and a functioning drug addict, uncovers a health care conspiracy when he takes on a case involving a local ER nurse who contracted AIDS after she was accidentally pricked by a contaminated needle.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Millennium Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE PUNKlassen, Jon
Summary: "A tiny fish proudly wears a blue hat. It fits him perfectly. Problem is, trouble could be following close behind... So it's a good thing that the enormous fish he took it from won't wake up. And even if he does, it's not as though he'll ever know what happened, right?"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2022
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1 available in Board Books, Call number: JE BOARD KLAKagen, Lesley
Summary: "The summer of 1960 was the hottest ever for Summit, Wisconsin. For kids seeking relief from the heat, there was a creek to be swum in, sprinklers to run through, and ice cream at Whitcomb's Drugstore. But for Frankie, Viv, and Biz, eleven-year-old best friends, it would forever be remembered as the summer that evil paid a visit to their small town - and took their young lives as they'd known...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alcove Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KAGHosten, Colin
Summary: Describes all the things for which Olaf the snowman is grateful, from his friends and his carrot nose to music and the Northern Lights.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Press 2018
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1 available in Kids' Favorite Characters, Call number: JE DISCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC HOSHamilton, Kersten
Summary: Helping the farmer get everything ready for Harvest Day, Green Tractor can't wait for the children to arrive so he can pull the wagon for the hayride!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2021
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Summary: A teacher is stuck on the Ferris wheel, and Yellow Copter is called to the rescue.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2015